Jonathan Wolf is a writer from Ames, Iowa. He is a 2026-27 Fulbright Scholar (Germany) and holds an MFA from the University of Florida (2026).
In 2025, he won the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest in Poetry and was runner-up for the Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers. Other of his poems appear in RHINO and like a field. As an undergraduate, he received the Mary Kinzie Prize in Poetry and the Herder Prize in Philosophy from Northwestern University, where he earned his BA with majors in Philosophy, Violin Performance, and American Studies. He has worked as a darkroom tech, a writing tutor, a research assistant for NU’s Visual Cognition Laboratory, a bicycle mechanic, a music instructor, a server, a Home Goods cash-office clerk, an undergraduate fellow with NU’s Center for Civic Engagement, and a blog-writer for an environmental justice nonprofit. He loves to make music and photographs.
